Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Shirin Gul, “The Kebab Killer,” was convicted in Afghanistan
of killing 28 men in collaboration with her husband and his in-laws. The family
was part of a large regional gang that specialized in stealing and selling
cars, particularly taxis. Accomplices were used to transport taxis over the
Pakistani border to the town of Miram Shah, where the cars were sold there for
more than $10,000 each. The three accused men admitted that they had invited
the men into their home with offers of tea and kebabs, which contained
sedatives. Then they would kill and rob them. According to some reports, Shirin
would also lure taxi drivers to her house for sexual intercourse.

Her lover Rahmatullah, her 18-year-old son, Samiullah, and
four others believed to be involved in the killings. Rahmatullah had murdered
her first husband. Police think her first husband, Mohammed Azam, was probably
an accomplice in the early murders but was himself killed when Shirin Gul and
Rahmatullah became lovers.

During an investigation that began in June 2004 with the
discovery of the naked body of a wealthy businessman Haji Mohammed Anwar, near
Kabul, He had been invited to the couple's home, ostensibly to discuss a
property deal. Soon after the start of theinvestigation of the Anwar murder, police recovered 18 corpses from
under the yard of Shirin Gul’s former home in the eastern city of Jalalabad,
and another six at an address in Kabul.

The body of Shirin Gul's 60-year-old first husband was found
under the floor of her Jalalabad home. After murdering Azam in Jalalabad, the
killer couple moved from to Kabul and lived as man and wife. The murderess
liked to spend her loot on gold jewelry and shoes.

Shirin was sentenced to 20 years in prison.It is thought that she “still runs a mafia-style
operation from her cell.” (St. Estephe text)

Sunday, June 23, 2013

According to criminal charges filed in June 21, 2013, Diane
Staudte (51), of Springfield, Missouri confessed to poisoning three family
members with anti-freeze. Yet Mrs. Staudte had good reasons for her homicidal
house-cleaning campaign.

The serial poisoner told detectives that she chose to
terminate the life of her husband Mark because she “hated him.” Her son Shawn
deserved to diebecause he was “worse
than a pest.” Daughter Sarah, who survived the attempt on her life, barely, was
deemed not fit to live because she “would not get a job and had student loans
that had to be paid.”

At first, this killer mom attempted to cover up daughter
Rachel’s role as an accessory. Yet ultimately Rachel (22), was revealed to have
planned and executed the crimes in tandem with her malicious mother.

Antifreeze was the poison of choice.

***

►ANTIFREEZE

Antifreeze seems to becoming a bit of a trend
among homicide addicts of the fair gender.

Julia Lynn Turner, of Marietta, Georgia, used
antifreeze to murder two partners. In 1995, she killed husband Maurice
Glenn Turner, age 31. On January 22, 2001, she killed her boyfriend, Randy
Thompson, age 32, father of a child conceived while married to her first
victim.

Stacey Castor of Clay, New York, was convicted in 2009 of
killing a husband and a brother, and attempting to murder a daughter using
antifreeze, and idea she got from watching a TV news report on the Turner
case. Her husband was sitting beside her watching as she gained her antifreeze
inspiration.

She killed second husband David Castor, using antifreeze, in2005. The murderess tried, unsuccessfully,
to pin the guilt for the two successful murders on her third targeted victim,
daughter Ashley Wallace, who had been very close to her deceased father. But
Amy survived the antifreeze and the fake suicide note created by her mother
became damning evidence against the poisoner.

EXCERPT from Wikipedia: Williamina "Minnie" Dean (2 September 1844 – 12 August 1895) was a
New Zealander who was found guilty of infanticide and hanged. She was the only
woman to receive the death penalty in New Zealand.

In 1895, Dean was
observed boarding a train carrying a young baby and a hatbox, but observed
leaving the same train without the baby and only the hatbox. As railway porters
later testified, the object was suspiciously heavy. A woman, Jane Hornsby, came
forward claiming to have given her granddaughter, Eva, to Dean, and clothes
identified as belonging to this child were found at Dean's residence, but Dean
could not produce the child herself. A search along the railway line found no
sign of the child. Dean was arrested and charged with murder. Her garden was
dug up, and three bodies (two of babies, and one of a boy estimated to be three
years old) were uncovered. An inquest found that one child (Eva) had died of
suffocation and one, later identified as one year-old Dorothy Edith Carter, had
died from an overdose of laudanum (used on children to sedate them). The cause
of death for the third child was not determined. Dean was charged with their
murder.

In her trial,
Dean's lawyer Alfred Hanlon argued that all deaths were accidental, and that
they had been covered up to prevent adverse publicity of the sort that Dean had
previously been subjected to. On 21 June 1895, however, Dean was found guilty
of Dorothy Carter's murder, and sentenced to death. Between June and August
1895, Dean wrote her own account of her life. Altogether, she claimed to have
cared for twenty eight children. Of these, five were in good health when her
establishment was raided, six had died whilst under her care, and one had been
reclaimed by her parents. Apart from her two adopted daughters, that left
fourteen or so children unaccounted for, according to her own record.

On 12 August, she
was hanged by the official executioner Tom Long in Invercargill, at the
intersection of Spey and Leven streets, in what is now the Noel Leeming
carpark. She is the only woman to have been executed in New Zealand, and as
capital punishment in New Zealand has been abolished, it is likely that she will
retain that distinction. She is buried in Winton, alongside her husband, who
died in a house fire in 1908. Her crimes led to the belated passage of child
welfare legislation in New Zealand – the Infant Life Protection Act 1893 and
the Infant Protection Act 1896.

NOTE: Daniel Cooper was an abortion provider.Together with his wife, he offered an
adoption placement service for unwed mothers. This service was a fraud. The
couple collected money the from mother and then starved the baby to death. The
Coopers were charged with murdering three babies following the discovery of as
body of a newborn at Lyall Bay. Daniel Cooper was found guilty of the murders
and hanged at the Terrace Gaol on June 16, 1923. Martha Cooper pleaded that she
had only taken part in the atrocities because her husband had forced her to,
although it was reportedly she who had been the person who had deliberately
starved the babies to death. She was acquitted of the charges and left the
country soon after.

***

FULL TEXT: Wellington. Wednesday. – The Court of Appeal this
morning delivered written reasons for the dismissal of the application by
Daniel Richard Cooper for ,leave to appeal against his conviction for murder.

The Chief Justice, Sir Robert Stout, in the course of his
judgment, said that the main reason given by counsel for Cooper in support of
this application was that evidence had been admitted with respect to the
finding of other bodies than the one in respect of which Cooper was charged
with murder, and that such evidence was not admissible until a prima facie case
of murder had been made out. I am of opinion,” continued His Honor, that, even
if that be the law, sufficient evidence has been adduced to warrant the Court
in admitting the evidence. There was some evidence — first, that a child found
buried on the prisoner’s property was the body of the child of Margaret McLeod,
and it was this child Cooper was charged with murdering. There was evidence to
the effect that the body was that of a child about the age her child was at the
time of its disappearance; second, that the child had been born alive, and had
lived a few days; third, that the child was of dark complexion; fourth, that
the sex was the same; fifth, that the child had been given by McLeod to Mrs.
Cooper, who was living with prisoner, and that immediately after McLeod was
told by Cooper that the child had been given to persons for its adoption. There
was evidence that she had demanded possession of the child, and could not get
any definite answer as to whom it had been given by Cooper, nor where it was;
and the child could not be found. Further, there was evidence that the child
had not been adopted. All these facts were put forward in Court before evidence
as to other children was advanced.

I am of opinion,” concluded His Honor, that this case is
indistinguishable from the case of Makin against the Attorney-General of New
South Wales, and Regina v. Dean, and the Court is bound by the decisions in
these cases. In view of these decisions, it is clear that evidence regarding
other bodies found in the ground at Newlands belonging to prisoner was relevant
evidence, and tended to show he had been guilty of killing babies, the custody
of which had been granted to him by their mothers. The jury could rightly infer
that from evidence adduced.”

Mr. Justice Hosking, in his judgment, concurred with the Chief Justice, that a prima facie case was made out before the evidence objected
to was admitted. Mr. Justice Salmond said the case was indistinguishable from
Makin v. the Attorney-General of New South Wales, and the admission of evidence
objected to was in accordance with the rule laid down by the Court of Anneal in
Regina v. Whitta and Regina v. Smythe: Amplication for leave to appeal was
therefore refused..

Images taken from a long article, “’Foul Deeds Will Rise’ -
Coopers Tried For Murder - The Massacre of the Innocents - Out-Heroding Herod,”
New Zealand Truth (Wellington, New Zealand), May 19, 1923, p.. 5]

Saturday, June 22, 2013

FULL TEXT: At the Old Bailey, a baby farmer, named Augusta
Grammage, was lately sentenced to ten years' penal servitude for “feloniously
slaying” a young child that had been entrusted to her care. The judge
characterised the case as one of the most brutal that had had come before him.

Baby farmers were rarely convicted. This brief news report does not disclose any other possible killings, thus Grammage is not included in the Female Serial Killer list. Yet the case is included in the list of Baby Farmers who were serial killers.

FULL TEXT: A baby farmer, Emily Charlotte M'Kenzie, in the
suburbs of London, has been detected in her atrocious crimes and held for trial
for the wilful murder of two infants. She had deliberately starved them to
death, and three other babies found in her den were rescued in the nick of time
from a similar death. It is the worst case of its kind on record since 1870,
when one Margaret Waters was hanged on conviction of the murder of five babies.
Her trial lasted three days, and in the course of the evidence it was stated
that this hardened wretch, who was a widow but 35 years old, had lived in
succession at Peckham, Battersea, and Brixton. In each of these localities the
bodies of young children had been found during her residence there deposited in
out-of-the-way places, and there is no doubt, from the condition of the
remains, that she caused their death by neglect and starvation. Babies were
often handed over to her tender mercies at railway stations or in the streets,
by their unnatural parents or their agents, and in many of these cases a sum of
money was given to the woman without any certainty that she would ever again hear
from the parent. Under such circumstances it is impossible to tell how many murders
this woman may have committed.

FULL TEXT: The woman who, for a consideration, undertakes
the foster-mothering of stray infants, was much in evidence at the Criminal
Court on Tuesday afternoon last when a weazened old hag, named Mary Ann Guy,
stood her trial for the manslaughter of an infant female child. Death was
brought about by neglect, the child was found to have suffered from a
complication of diseases; but what stood out prominently was that the child, an
illegitimate, had bean slowly and deliberately starved to death.

Mary Ann Guy has for some time past been a professional
baby-farmer, out at Island Bay. When she was arrested on the charge of which
she was convicted, five children, whose ages ran from two months to five years,
were found on the. premises. Her home was unregistered, heir license having
been taken from her, because she is of a greedy, grasping nature and had
committed a breach of the Law by taking in more children than permitted.

It was for the sum of £20 that the wicked, old baby-farmer
contracted to adopt the child Nellie B. Smith, the illegitimate daughter of a
single woman named Bellair Smith. The child was born at Masterton on Dec. 4,
1904, and in April, 1905, an advertisement was inserted in the Wellington
“Post” asking for some kind motherly person. to adopt the infant. Apparently
ever on the look-out for such advertisements — as a statement by the accused
showed that she had received a £40 premium from some other single woman who
wished to be rid of her incumbrance and advertised so in the “Post” — the woman
Smith was communicated with by the baby-trafficker, and to cut a long story
short, Mary Ann Guy took the child in on the £or consideration, payable by instalments.
It was not at any time very strong child. The mother visited her offspring at
various times and manifested a deep affection for it. An application by the Guy
woman to adopt the child as her own was refused by the Magistrate, and the
baby-farmer continued to bleed the mother. She made demands for money over and
above the £20 originally agreed upon, but, after yielding once to her demands,
the young woman refused to submit to further blackmailing. In January of 1906
the child seemed well and it appeared to be healthy in later months. In
September it began to fade away and it was dead on Sept. 16. It died, according
to the hag’s story, at 2 a.m., or thereabouts, and it had, still according to
the old woman, been fed on bread and milk about five o’clock and at midnight.
She had in addition given the child of 20 months some lung balsam, which, it
was proved, contained opium, because it had a cold. No doctor was requisitioned
when the poor atom died, but on Monday Dr. Kemp was sent for, and he promptly asked
the woman why she had not called in a doctor earlier and the reply was that she
did not liketo trouble a doctor on a
Sunday. The matter was very naturally then reported to the Coroner. Constable
Carmody visited the Island Bay Baby Farm, which is situated on Clyde r street,
and took the body away. The woman was anxious to know whether an inquest would
be held and being assured that such a course would be pursued she declared that
she had nothing to fear, as she had done her duty by the child. How she had
done that duty was told by Drs. Fyffe and Henry, who held a post-mortem
examination. The body was terribly emaciated, the doctors said, and only
weighed 14lb. 14oz, whereas it should have weighed just twice as much. Its
lungs were diseased, and the opium had partly paralysed the nerves of the
stomach. The primary cause of death was neglect and want of food. At the
inquest, the woman, who had. not then been accused of causing the child’s
death, made a statement in which she gave the history of her Island Bay baby
farm, and her view of the reasons for the loss of her license as the keeper of
a registered home. The child Nellie Smith, she declared, was not an intelligent
one; it could speak but little and could not walk. It was a sickly child when
she first took it in. She declared that she well attended to its every want. It
was at that time elicited from her that Nellie Smith was not the only child
that had died in her house. A baby, for which she received a premium of £40,
had died, and it was in connection with the false registration of that child’s
death that she committed another offence.

Mr Blair, who defended the harridan, had not much hope of
gaining a acquittal, the doctors’ evidence being all together too damning. Only
one thing could be said in the dreadful old woman’s favor, and that was that
her house was kept very clean. Unable to get away from the fact that the child
had been practically starved, the lawyer endeavored to reconcile the story that
the old woman had, told as to having twice fed the child before its death, with
the evidence of the doctors that no traces of food had been found in its
stomach.

After His Honor had summed up, the jury, after nearly an
hour’s retirement, convicted the old woman, who was remanded for sentence till
Friday.

While the jury were considering her case, the prisoner
pleaded guilty to a charge of having given false particulars concerning the
death of a child named Gladys Vera Reeves, or Nicholls, this child being the
one with whom the prisoner had received an adoption fee of £40. On this charge
she was. also remanded for sentence till Friday.

When, yesterday morning, the prisoner stood up for sentence,
Mr Blair had practically nothing to say for her except to plead for leniency on
the ground of her old age.

The Chief Justice told the miserable old woman that she had
been properly found guilty by the jury of killing a child by neglect and not
giving it food and attention to preserve its life. One would have thought, His
Honor said, that such a helpless infant would have appealed to the heart of any
woman and cause her to have attended to it in sickness and distress. Had this
been the first case of its kind with which she had been connected he might feel
inclined to take a more merciful view of the case. He was, however, afraid that
this was not the first infant she had had in her charge that had been
neglected. Two children had died under her care. In one case a doctor. had
been called in just before death, and he had giver a certificate, rather
rashly, he thought, not having known the child’s state. The prisoner had then
made a false declaration concerning the child’s death. By declaring it to be
her son’s child, no doubt in order to avoid investigation by the. police, she
had possibly thought to evade a prosecution. She had lost her license by taking
in more children than the law allowed, and had. the evidence showed that she
had neglected other children he would deal with her very severely. He would
take into consideration her great age of 62 years. Her offence was a grave one.
and seeing that it was of neglecting’ a poor, helpless child so as to cause its
death he could not passa less
sentence than three years’ imprisonment.

On the charge of making a false statement a sentence of six
month’s was imposed, to run concurrently with the previous sentence.

Thursday, June 20, 2013

FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 3):
Melbourne, Wednesday. – An inquest was held to-day into the circumstances of
the deaths of five boarded-out babies. On January 17 12 babies were removed
from a house of Nurse Clayton’s, at Preston, to the depot for neglected children
at RoyalPark, and five of them died
there. Their ages ranged from six weeks to six months. The cause of death in
each case was colic, accelerated by intense heat. One infant, aged five months,
weighed only 5 lb; another, seven weeks old, 5¼ lb; and a third, six weeks old,
6 lb.

Madeline Murray, inspector under the
Infant Life Protection Act, deposed that on January 13 she visited Nurse
Clayton’s home, which was a six-roomed dwelling. In one good-sized room she
found six babies. There were others in another room, and one was outside. Most
of the children were suffering from dysentery, and were so dirty that she was
affected for a couple of days. The children were in boxes and in makeshift
beds. The bed-clothing was ragged and dirty. The place was not too small if
properly aired.

Dr. James J. Sheahan said that when
the children wore admitted at the RoyalParkdepot on January 17 they were in an extremely emaciated condition,
and looked as it they had been starved.

Constable McCormlck gave evidence as
to Mrs. Clayton’s residence at Whittlesea as a registered nurse. Before she
removed to Preston in December last, he considered her an excellent nurse. She
had as many as nine children there, and had the assistance of two girls.
Everything was clean.

Agnes L. Taylor, a married woman,
stated that she visited Mrs. Clayton at different times. She was there when
Miss Murray called, and did not notice any bad smell. The children were
thoroughly looked after. The inquest was adjourned till Saturday.

FULL TEXT (Article 2 of 3):
Melbourne, Monday. 8 – Further remarkable evidence was given on Saturday at the adjourned
inquest regarding the deaths of the five infants who were among the 12 boarded out to Mrs.
Madge Clayton, a registered nurse, residing at Preston.

John L. Davies, the acting secretary
of the Neglected Children’s Department, said that on January 7 he instructed
the lady inspector (Miss Murray) to visit Nurse Clayton’s house.

The Coroner: Is this portion of her
report to you? “Jack Smith, 14 months old. Nurse J informed me he was three
months, very small, and thin, and badly needs medical care and nursing. This
child’s legs were tied together with a piece of rag at the ankles to keep him
from kicking and disturbing the other babies in the same cot or box. There were
four babies in this structure of 4 ft long, which was bad smelling and dirty.”

Witness: Yes. Lena Davies, a general servant,
said aha went to work for Nurse Clayton on October, last, and remained until January 11.

The Coroner: How were the children
fed? —One of the bottles out of which the children were fed was a pickle
bottle.

Did the children ever cry? —Yes.

What was done to them? They were put
on the floor and given a good smacking until they stopped.

Marian Lane, a domestic servant, said
she was at Nurse Clayton’s when she removed from Whittlesea to Preston on Christmas
Eve. During the seven weeks witness was there Nurse Clayton kept the children nice
and clean.

The Coroner: How were the children
removed? – In the train, some were put in hat racks, and others on seats and on
the floor.

Did you see any of the children with
their legs tied? – Yes; and one had its arms tied to prevent it taking a teat
out of its mouth.

After being warned by the Coroner,
Mrs. Clayton said
she did not wish to say anything or give evidence.

The Coroner said, “This is an
inquest, the like of which has never occurred before, and I hope will never
occur again. It is a goodthing that the
children were discovered when they were, and it is a pity that they were not
discovered before. The constable at Whittlesea, whose duty it was to visit the
nurse, should have known that 12 children were far too many for one nurse, even
with the assistance of two girls to look after them. I do not think he is free
from censure for not reporting the number of children the nurse had. There is
not sufficient evidence to warrant the nurse being committed for manslaughter,
but she certainly should not be allowed the care of any more children; and it
is possible to punish her for her cruelty to them it should be done. I return
a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony, with a rider that the
children were not properly treated by the nurse.”

~ ANOTHER CHILD DIES ~

Melbourne, Tuesday.—Yet another of
the 12 infants who were entrusted to the care of Nurse Clayton of Preston, has
died from colitis. As the child had been under the care of the doctor since
January 17 the coroner has decided not to hold an inquest.

FULL TEXT (Article 3 of 3):
Melbourne, Friday. – Nurse Clayton, of Preston, who had control of six infants,
all of whom died, was charged at the police court to-day for failing to provide
adequate nursing in the case of two of the infants, and was fined £1 on each of
the two charges with costs.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Note: “Thornman” is the correct spelling an is used in the
York, Pa. newspaper, yet some out-of town papers misspell the name as
“Thorman.” Detailed accounts of this case from the York Daily will be added
later. At the bottom of the post is a chronology based on these articles.

The girl, who was employed to do light work around the house
literally fried the child and while the child was writhing and screaming in its agony an aunt
entered the room and rescued it, but the child had been roasted from head to
foot and cannot live.

The servant girl in jail tonight confessed that she had
fatally burned three other children in a similar manner, giving their parents
the impression that they had fallen on the stove accidentally while climbing to
reach something.

[“Fire Used To Kill. - Girls Says She Killed Three Children
by Placing Them on the Stove.” Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Oh.), Feb. 23, 1906, p.
1]

***

FULL
TEXT (Article 2 of 4): York, Pa., April 17.—With a mania for burning children
when they are bad, because, as she says, “I am a devil and will burn them,”
Lillian Thornman, a 13-year-old colored girl, knocked upon a red hot stove a two-year-old
daughter of Robert Dorsey, also colored, and for several seconds calmly watched
her struggle to get off the stove and away from the boiler of hot water, which
was poured over her body as she alighted on the stove. Another girl then ran in
from the yard and saved the child from further injury. This was the Thornman
girl’s third victim. A year ago she set Esther Louise Harris, aged three years,
on a red hot stove and hold her fast until she made the statement that she was
a devil.

Two
months ago she threw hot grease over Leon Johnston, a small boy. Owing to the
fact that she had been convicted of petty thievery she was to be sent to a
Philadelphia Institution this afternoon, but was arrested after the burning of
the Dorsey child.

She
is now confined in jail on a charge of aggravated assault and battery with
intent to kill.

[“Says
She Is Satan’s Agent –’I Am a Devil,’ She Declares, as She Throws Tiny
Pickaninny Upon Stove to Roast,” Los Angeles Herald (Ca.), Apr. 18, 1906, p. 3;
“oved” in original corrected to “oven”]

***

FULL TEXT (Article 3 of 4): York, Penn. – Lillian Thorman, a
13-year-old girl, pleaded guilty to killing Helena Dorsey, a three-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dorsey. On Washington’s birthday the Thorman
girl, having become angered at something the little Dorsey child had done,
placed her on a red-hot stove. The child died later. The Thorman girl added: “I did
it because I have the devil in me.”

FULL TEXT (Aeticle 4 of 4): York, Pa., Feb. 25. – “Well, I
‘spose they’ll hang me; but I couldn’t help it; the devil that was in me made
me do it.” So said 13-year-old Lillian Thornman, colored, when she was informed
that Helena, the less than 3-year-old daughter of Robert Dorsey, also colored,
had died of the burns she inflicted upon her on Thursday.

This is the case in which the demon-possessed young cousin
of Mrs. Dorsey tossed the baby upon a red-hot stove and basted her with
scalding water, after similarly torturing two other children on different
occasions. She came came her from Philadephia, and was almost to be sent back
to her step-mother there. Explaining her resentment on this score she said:

“All Thursday morningthe three Dorsey children were teasing me about my being sent back to
Philadelphia, and at that I got mad. My temper got the better of me and I threw
Helena on the stove.”

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

BOOK TITLE: A Deeply Interesting Work. Just Published. Life,
Career And Awful Death By The Garrotte, of Margaret C. Waldegrave: Otherwise
Margaret C. Florence – Alias Mrs. Bellville, Mrs, Bolande, Mrs. Le Hocq, The
poisoner and murderess, at Havanna, Cuba, June 9th 1852. For the Murder of
Charles D. Ellias, Lorenzo Cordoval, and Pierre Dupont, April 14th,
1852, who were three Desperate Members of a Powerful and Sanguinary Band of
Robbers, Counterfeiters, and Assassins, known as “The Alumni.”

DESCRIPTION: Margaret C. Waldegrave, the most remarkable
woman of this age and generation – as all who read her life will testify –
Lima, in the valley of the Genesee, of highly respectable parents, – her father
being esteemed one of the wealthiest men in Western New York. Her mother dying
at her birth, she was brought up with care, and at the age of twelve years was
sent to a seminary to finish her education. At the age of fourteen she returned
home, where she me with a cool reception from her step-mother – her father
having married again during her absence. Soon a domestic revolution drove her
from home, and she made her way to Buffalo, where she found employment in a
fashionable millinery establishment. Her marvelous beauty attracted many young
men who let slip no opportunity that offered to flatter her vanity by praising
her beauty. The result was, Margaret was beguiled of herself by the luring
smiles and siren songs of those who professed to be her friends and admirers.
Her first step in the center of crime was the murder of a little child; and
then to bide that she murdered the witness of the deed, by administering
strychnine in liquor to him. She then flew to Canada, where she joined fortunes
with a notorious gambler and swindler, who took her to Philadelphia, where she
left him and flew to New Orleans with that notorious villain, LeHocq,
perpetrating many dark and memorable deeds. From New Orleans she flew to
Havana, where she finally murdered the members of “The Alumni.” Space will not
admit of our saying much more. But full particulars are given in the book
written by herself, and edited by Rev. A. Delos Velos of Havana, which shows at
once the interest manifested in her fate.

***

Rev. A. Delos Velos, Life,
Career And Awful Death By The Garrotte, of Margaret C. Waldegrave .. New
Orleans: Published by Arthur R. Orton, 1853 (illustrated).

Friday, June 14, 2013

This item copies a post that appeared in reddit on the subreddit Red Pill, posted in June 9, 2013 by HumanSockPuppet.

Florence Nightingale [1820-1910] was a celebrated English
social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came
to prominence while serving as a nurse during the Crimean War, where she tended
to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after
her habit of making rounds at night. [Wikipedia]

Nightingale in these remarks contrasts Victorian stereotypes
about women’s superior capacity for sympathy to her extensive experience with
those persons whom she came across and worked withduring her remarkable and famous career
serving the needy.

***

From reddit: I’ve
been doing some reading on Florence Nightingale and I came across some
fascinating commentary she made [in a letter] to a fiction writer [Madame Mohl]
with regards to her misgivings about female nature.

Here are some choice quotes by Florence herself on the
nature of women:

I have read half your book thro’,
and am immensely charmed by it. But some things I disagree with and more I do
not understand. This does not apply to the characters, but your conclusions,
e.g. you say “women are more sympathetic than men”.

Now if I were to write a
book out of my experience, I should begin Women have no
sympathy. Yours is the tradition. Mine is the conviction of
experience.

Now look at my experience of men. A
statesman, past middle age, absorbed in politics for a quarter of a century,
out of sympathy with me, remodels his whole life and policy - learns a science
the driest, the most technical, the most difficult, that of administration, as
far as it concerns the lives of men - not, as I learnt it, in the field from
stirring experience, but by writing dry regulations in a London room by my sofa
with me. This is what I call real sympathy.

Another (Alexander, whom I made
Director-General) does very nearly the same thing. He is dead too. Clough, a
poet born if ever there was one, takes to nursing administration in the same
way, for me.

I only mention three whose whole
lives were remodeled by sympathy for me. But I could mention very many
others...

I have never found one woman
who altered her life by one iota for me or my opinions.

Now just look at the degree in
which women have sympathy - as far as my experience is concerned. And my
experience of women is almost as large as Europe. And it is so intimate too. I
have lived and slept in the same bed with English Countesses and Prussian
Bauerinnen. No [other woman] has ever had charge of women of the different
creeds that I have had. No woman has excited “passions” among women more than I
have. Yet I leave no school behind me. My doctrines have taken no hold
among women...and I attribute this to a want of sympathy.

It makes me mad, the Women’s Rights
talk about “the want of a field” for them - when I know that I would gladly
give £500 a year for a Woman Secretary. And two English Lady Superintendents
have told me the same. And we can’t get one ... they don’t know the
names of the Cabinet Ministers. They don’t know the offices at the Horse
Guards...Now I’m sure I did not know these things. When I went to the Crimea I
did not know a Colonel from a Corporal. But there are such things as Army Lists
and Almanacs. Yet I never could find a woman who, out of sympathy, would
consult one for my work.

I do believe I am “like a man,” as
Parthe says. But how? In having sympathy.

Women crave for
being loved, not for loving. They scream out at you
for sympathy all day long, they are incapable of giving any in return, for they
cannot remember your affairs long enough to do so...They cannot state a fact
accurately to another, nor can that other attend to it accurately enough for it
to become information. Now is not all this the result of want of sympathy?

I am sick with indignation at what
wives and mothers will do of the most egregious selfishness. And people call it
all maternal or conjugal affection, and think it pretty to say so. No, no, let
each person tell the truth from his own experience.”

Full
Google doc text available here. The quoted section begins at the bottom of
page 13. [Sir Edward Tyas Cook,The Life of Florence Nightingale: in Two Volumes, Vol. II, 1862-1910,
MacMillan, 1914]

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

FULL TEXT: The “Italia” of Naples announces the death of the
famous “brigandess” La Gizzi, who was for some time the terror of the Volturara
district. La Gizzi was a tall, muscular woman with beetling brows, covered with
a thick mass of black shaggy hair that fell over her shoulders and breast, and
was so bloodthirsty that she voluntarily performed the office of executioner on
every captive doomed to death by her hand. It is related that on one occasion,
after stabbing three of her captives, she collected the blood that flowed from
their wounds in a jar and then poured it over the head of her lover, telling
him that that should be his baptism of blood. Being sharply pursued by the troops,
her consort and herself took refuge in the cottage of a peasant at Petrosa, and
compelled him with frightful threats to give them food. The peasant laid some
provisions before them; but while they were busied with their meal, he seized
an axe, and attacked them with such fury that he struck both La Gizzi and her
companion to the ground before they could defend themselves. He then ran to the
neighboring village of Ricigliano, collected the national guard of the
district, and returned with them to his cottage. Here they found the two dead
bodies, and after decapitating them carried the heads of La Gizzi and her
lover, together with their conqueror, in triumph through the district.

They were called “War-Marriage Vampires,” “Fake War Brides,”
"Allotment Wives,” “Allotment Brides,” “Allotment Annies” and “Victory
Girls” – women who married multiple young men so they could fraudulently profit
from the monthly government allotment checks they would receive for each
husband and, when she got lucky, would when the husband died in battle receive
a bonus payment.

An article published in 1950 stated that “hundreds of
Allotment Annies were convicted of preying on servicemen during and after World
War II. Convictions totaled 242 in 1946 but dropped to 47 in 1950, The effects
of the Korean War will not be known for some time.” [Frances Spatz, “Allotment
Annies are at it again,” The American Weekly (San Antonio Light) (Tx.), Dec.
17, 1950, p. 2]

A recent essay discussing this subject: “Allotment Annies and Other
Wayward Wives:. Wartime Concerns About Female Disloyalty and the Problem of the
Returned Veteran,” in The United States and the Second World War Fordham University Press September
2010, pp. 99-128]

A recent essay discussing this subject: “Allotment Annies and Other
Wayward Wives:. Wartime Concerns About Female Disloyalty and the Problem of the
Returned Veteran,” in The United States and the Second World War Fordham University Press September
2010, pp. 99-128]

World War I. US mobilization 4,355,000. After declaration of war the
US target for volunteer enlistment for the first 6 weeks was set at 1
million. Yet only 73,000 men volunteered. On May 18, 1917 the Selective
Service Act was passed, with a minimum age of 21. Ultimately 4,355,000
were mobilized. During the war United States forces suffered 323,018
casualties.

***

“War Marriage Vampires – MGTOW,” a YouTube talk published on May 22, 2015
is a superb discussion of this subject, based in part on the materials found on
this checklist.

FULL TEXT (Article 1 of 3): Chicago, June 20. – Charged with
operating a so-called baby farm where ten babies are said to have died within
the last three months, Mrs. Maude Dieden was arraigned here today before Judge
Joseph Schulman, who ordered the farm closed and twenty-seven children on the
farm sent to juvenile institutions.

Miss Jessie Binford, of the Juvenile Protection Association,
is the complaining witness. The specific charge against Mrs. Dieden is
operating without a license.

FULL
TEXT (Article 2 of 3): Chicago, June 20.—A new job— and altogether different from the usual
assignment was given Chicago police today. They must find the parents of eleven
babies, all under three years of age, taken from the “baby farm” when it was
ordered closed.

There
were big blue eyed dreamers gurgling the hours away, little lads with winsome
blue eyes and little girls with brown flashing eyes that sent a smile to all
who cared to play with them.

Meanwhile.,
the case against Mrs. Maude Dieden, 40, charged with operating the farm without
license, was continued by Judge John Schulman until July 25.

Mrs.
Dieden, on the other hand, charged that she had been the victim of a “shake
down” by a doctor.

She
refused to name any parties to the conspiracy but said the doctor had caused
the death at ten children in the past two years by giving them “Too much, of a
mixture of hot water, canned milk, corn syrup and acid.” She admitted, however
running the place without a license.

Officials
of the detention home who removed the children from the “farm” said all were
well fed and well cared for generally but that the “farm” was far from clean.

“All
of them are fine youngsters,” said Mrs. Omminial Wishnell, attaché of the
court. “Any parents that let these children go are losing a lifetime of joy.”

FULL
TEXT (Article 3 of 3): Chicago, Dec. 21 – Conviction of Mrs. Maude Dieden for
operating a children’s home after her license had been revoked today disclosed
charges that ten children had died from malnutrition after having been removed
from the woman’s home.

The
charges were made by Miss Harriet Comstock, an official of the Juvenile
Protective Association, who testified that she knew often children, taken from
Mrs. Dieden’s home suffering from undernourishment, who later died in other
institutions.

Mrs.
Dieden was sentenced to serve thirty days in the house of correction and fined
$100 for operating her home without a license, but obtained a sixty-day stay
pending appeal.

Her
arrest took place December 17 after numerous women, complaining their children
had to be removed from her home because of malnutrition, signed warrants
against her.

Miss
Comstock testified the woman’s license was rescinded last January 28 but she later
obtained a permit to resume operations, which she did temporarily until
hospitals and welfare associations succeeded a gain in having the permit
cancelled. The welfare worker said that on last June 29 twenty-nine children
were removed from the home, all suffering from lack of nutrition.